Hogmanay magic: Thousands of torches illuminate Edinburgh streets in NYE celebration
Thousands of torches light Edinburgh streets, kicking off Hogmanay celebrations.
Some 20,000 torches lit the streets of Scotland’s capital on Friday night as friends and families from all over the world gathered for the Edinburgh Hogmanay torchlight procession.
In what marked the beginning of the 30th Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival, this year’s procession brought singing, cheering and laughter to thousands of people.
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26 comments
They look like crazed villagers on their way to a witch trial ! 😂
Idk what this is, but torches are cool😂
Wonderful to see. Happy New Year to all who embrace our traditions 🎆
LOL They'll all be celebrating ramadan if the idiots running the place get their way!
Lang may yer lum reek.
This wandering about waving a burning stick like one of the loonies in the Omega Man stuff just weirds me out tbh, all very dark ages which became trendy in the grim EU era 90s the whacks running Edinburgh forcibly try to keep us in, still at least the heat keeps 'em warm i guess.
Happy New Year Brexit Britain.
It’s up helly a. Go look it up. It’s vikings carrying torches
Need the torches
cause there are nooo
Fireworks
Great to see 👍
Here's to our Viking ancestors..🍺
Happy New Year….🔔
Good to see that the English keep up their traditions! 🎉
Happy hogmany and nerday to all
In Scotland, Hogmanay never really ends – it's just endless drinking all year round…
Well no more fireworks from the castle as taking too much dmg over the years atleast good to still have a tradition especially in these messed up times…🤍♠️
The Klan active in Scotland lol
So nice to see no imigrants protesting
Hogmanay.
Some suggest it may have come from the Old French word hoguinané, referring to a New Year's gift, others that is comes from the Gaelic og maidne which means 'new morning' or a Gaelic derivation from haugmenn, the Icelandic word for 'hill-men', or elves, who banished trolls into the sea.
Thousands?
شعب مناضل
Troglodytes.
Let’s see a ‘protester’ raise a flag amongst the Scot’s tonight, don’t fancy their chances much.
Thank god they ditched the Scottish stuff off of the tele.hated it in the 70s.
Amazing x
a note to the plasticine people
you will not replace us lol
2024
snpedo oot the door
WTF. Why & what for? Don’t quite understand this celebration on the 29th of December or what it is about. I stay In Edinburgh but have no idea what this means or what it has to do with new year celebrations 3 days beforehand! ✌️👍✌️. Happy New Year To one & All. 🎉
😮 VIKING!!!!❤